SCISSORED SUNNERS

When Rudi Gernreich received SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S first citation for the young designer of "greatest promise" last June he was hailed in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED with the lines: "Oh sew me up in a fire-red sheath/ Skintight from head to toe;/ Then on with the scissors to show beneath/What good fashion meant me to show!" The scissors of Designer Gernreich snipped in new directions for his third and most prophetic collection of knitted bathing suits. Manufactured by Westwood Knitting Mills, the suits will be available at Lord & Taylor, Burdine's and Jax now through January.